The High Court in Pretoria will hear arguments in the e-toll case on November 26, Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa) chairman Wayne Duvenage said on Thursday.<\/p>\n
“The review in the high court will take place on November 26,” he said.<\/p>\n
On April 28, the court handed down an order preventing the SA National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) from levying or collecting e-tolls pending the outcome of a judicial review.<\/p>\n
Duvenage said Outa had filed supplementary affidavits, and the respondents in the case – Sanral, National Treasury, the transport minister, and the Gauteng transport MEC – would file responding affidavits.<\/p>\n
After this, Outa would file a replying affidavit.<\/p>\n
“It takes quite a while,” he said.<\/p>\n
The Constitutional Court will hear arguments in the e-toll case on August 15.<\/p>\n
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan applied to the Constitutional Court to set aside the court order preventing Sanral from implementing e-tolling.<\/p>\n
Gordhan argued that Judge Bill Prinsloo had ignored the principle of the separation of powers.<\/p>\n
He said the decision to halt e-tolling would negatively affect the economy. In its reply, Outa said Sanral was still not ready to launch the project.<\/p>\n
Under the e-toll project, motorists will pay over 35 cents a kilometre to travel on some of Gauteng’s freeways.<\/p>\n
The project was to have been launched on April 30, but was postponed for a month after a meeting between the ANC and its alliance partner, the Congress of SA Trade Unions.<\/p>\n
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